Super Bowl 2019: Gladys Knight delivers flawless national anthem

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Feb 3, 2019 at 5:29 PM

Apparently it's a thing to place bets on how long the national anthem will last. If you had 118 seconds, you're a winner for Super Bowl 2019 before the game even kicked off.

The folks at FiveThirtyEight, whose jobs we don't envy, spent a few days analyzing the odds, and the results? Atlanta native Gladys Knight was projected to sing longer than 107 seconds, so they called it right.

Other top performances include Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson, and then there are the other -- let's just call them memorable -- national anthem performances, like when Christina Aguilera botched the lyrics in 2011.